Portable LPN: The All-in-One Reference for Practical Nurses

A compact powerhouse of clinical information, Portable LPN provides practical guidance on today's most important topics.

Wide-ranging and concise, the book is an indispensable tool for the nurse who gives day-to-day care. Like having an expert consultant in your pocket, Portable LPN shows the way through the large mass of relevant clinical information that nurses require in their daily practice.

Portable LPN is an all-in-one guide to key clinical topics, such as assessment techniques, distinguishing health from disease, interpreting ECGs and lab tests, preoperative and postoperative care, key nursing procedures, precautions in contagious disease, methods of drug administration, and more. Highlights of this Second Edition include a new chapter on ECGs and interpreting cardiac arrhythmias; new disorders, including MRSA, VRE, and metabolic syndrome; a new patient safety feature; and more procedures, including adult CPR and foreign body airway obstruction.

Platform:

Ovid

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)

Product Type: Book

Author/Editor: Lippincott

ISBN: 978-1-605-47584-4

Specialty:

Dictionaries & Word References

Practical/Vocational Nursing

References

Skills & Procedures

Language: English

Edition: 2nd Ed.

Pages: 576

Illustrations: 0

Year: 2009

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